Alright I did see the OpenBRF but got the impression from reading the thread that I'd need wings and a couple exporters to work with it. I'll try that on my own, the models themselves at the level of M&B should go by pretty fast for the actual scultping. Thanks for the rigging tip.
That's too bad about Fox being so anal retentive but this was just a quick mod that I wanted to do for myself and anyone else who doesn't mind just-for-fun power play. I already have the items pretty much all set up and done in the items file and like I said I could prolly do all the models within a day, barring mapping/texture/rigging time so it'll probably be done before anyone even knows about it, god forbid it get shut down. o.0
